THE ARCHETYPAL ARCHIVE

I've probably read Doyle's HOUND two or three times just for pleasure, but not since starting this blog in 2007. I recall occasional...

 Though I've used the terms "strong" and "weak" at times to denote the way later authors render their variations on ...

  Over a decade after Cay Van Ash, former secretary to Sax Rohmer, completed the only book-length Rohmer biography , he published this work,...

Characters should be interchangeable as between one book and another. The entire corpus of existing literature should be regarded as a limbo...

  I ended Part 1 on this observation: that even though it was possible for raconteurs to use the name of a famous literary character for a...

My currently definitive statement on the factors that distinguish superordinate from subordinate characters, formulated in EQUAL AND UNEQUAL...

I introduced the term "stature" into my ongoing investigations of focal presences in SUBS AND COES PT. 1.   I doubt that I or anyo...

In GOOD WILL QUANTUMS PT. 2 I said: But although "density/complexity" is the primary criterion of fictional excellence in any ...

On this blog I've written a good deal about the theories of "will" expoused by Nietzsche and Schopenhauer, and have formulated...

[Hamlet] is a superman among men. And he is a superman because he has walked and held converse with death... Thus Hamlet is an element of e...

At the conclusion of GHOSTS AMERICAN STYLE I wrote: The mere fact that the mystery killer is not exceptional in his dynamicity would kee...

In my last essay I emphasized the essential independence of dynamicity, mythicity, and their respective significant sublimity-values.  Howe...

I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma...-- Winston Churchill (or maybe his sp...